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Litigation

Sep. 30, 2016

Rutter attorneys fail to restore bad faith suit against insurers for now

U.S. Judge Stephen V. Wilson ruled that the suit, stayed in 2012, cannot be restored until a related appeal is resolved.

By Eli Wolfe
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — The years-long saga of the defunct Rutter, Hobbs & Davidoff turned another page this week when a federal judge denied a motion to reactivate a bad faith suit by some of the firm's attorneys against their insurance provider.

The motion was filed by Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP, which along with Murray M. Sinclair & Associates is representing Rutter ...

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